Set in rural Wisconsin, the script features both percussive staccato, a la Mamet — sample lines: “Just?” “Nothin.” “Gar?” — and surreal, Shepardian flouting of rules.

Gary (Brian Smick) can’t say why he came home early from a buck-hunting trip, except that he had a premonition. Dad (Benjamin Latham) and Laurie (Gabby Rose) can’t agree on whether Craig (Donovan Rogers) entered their house unannounced or by invitation. Yet, though that question puts Laurie’s safety at stake — the play begins days after, and mere miles away from, the Jonestown massacre — the pair drop the argument as if their discussion had taken place in a dream. Scott Ragle directs Bryn Magnus’ mysterious drama.